A delegation of senior State Department representatives traveled to Cuba via a U.S. government plane last week, officials said, a diplomatic opening amid intense pressure from the Trump administration.

The most senior civil servant in Britain's Foreign Office has been fired former ambassador Peter Mandelson's security vetting not being disclosed.

Daniel Joseph Kinahan, a fugitive suspected of leading a powerful gang in Ireland, was arrested in Dubai as part of a secret operation by Irish and UAE police.

The US on Friday issued a license letting countries buy more Russian oil that’s already been loaded on tankers, part of the White House’s push to prevent prices from surging.

The lawyer for a Canadian man facing murder charges for allegedly selling lethal substances online to people at risk of self-harm has told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. that he has agreed to

With an ambitious four-country tour of Africa underway, Pope Leo has also had to navigate attacks from the Trump administration over the religious leader's criticism of the Iran war. Leo in Cameroon on Thursday blasted leaders ​who spend billions on ‌wars and said the world was "being ravaged by ​a handful of ​tyrants.

Members of Iran's Jewish community commemorated Iran's late supreme leader on Thursday. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in an airstrike on his residence on Feb. 28, the day the United States and Israel started a war against Iran.

Australia’s most decorated living veteran, Ben Roberts-Smith, walked free on bail from a Sydney prison on Friday, 10 days after he was charged with war crimes in the killings of five people while serving in Afghanistan.